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![“So either [Joe Kent] was lying then or he’s lying now or, most likely, because he’s not a principal, he’s not a cabinet member, he is not in those meetings where that exquisite intelligence is provided. He said, ‘Iran has to be dealt with. The president is correct,’ a scant few weeks ago,” argues Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council, in response to Joe Kent’s resignation as director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center. Watch the full conversation at CFR:](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2035151407267877315/media/HD5PZq3W8AAMesq.jpg)
“So either [Joe Kent] was lying then or he’s lying now or, most likely, because he’s not a principal, he’s not a cabinet member, he is not in those meetings where that exquisite intelligence is provided. He said, ‘Iran has to be dealt with. The president is correct,’ a scant few weeks ago,” argues Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council, in response to Joe Kent’s resignation as director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center. Watch the full conversation at CFR:
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“5 years ago, in the top 10 would be 8 U.S. universities, 1 from France, and 1 from Germany and/or the UK, depending on the count. Right now, if you see the same index in 2025, 8 of the top are Chinese and only 1—Harvard—remains,” says Albert Bourla, chairman and CEO of Pfizer, Inc. Bourla refers to the Nature Index, a ranking of universities and institutions by their contributions to high-quality scientific research in the natural sciences. 🔗 Watch the full conversation:
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America’s global role is more contested and uncertain than at any time since World War II, and the time is ripe for a fundamental reevaluation of the nation’s strategy. To meet this moment, the Council on Foreign Relations is launching the Future of American Strategy Initiative, a multiyear effort that aims to answer one defining question: Where does America go from here? To kickstart this conversation, CFR scholars, across 27 essays, explore the evolving strategic environment the United States will face over the next decade, spanning American strategy, great power rivalry, global order, geoeconomics, and warfare:
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“FIFA controls everything,” says Representative (R-IL) Darin LaHood, cochair of the Congressional Soccer Caucus. “FIFA now requires you to do so many different things. So when every one of those 11 host cities signed that contract with FIFA, it says in bold letters, ‘We don’t pay for transportation. We don’t pay for this. We control everything.’” 🔗 Watch the full conversation:
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“I have had to look President Xi in the eye and say, ‘President, America’s national security is not for sale. Period. Full stop,’” says Gina Raimondo, CFR expert and former U.S. secretary of commerce. “The truth of it is, their interests are opposed to ours. Right? Like they want to control their supply chain. They want to use critical minerals as leverage over us. They want and will take Taiwan. We want the opposite.” 🔗 Watch the full conversation:
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Over the past year, we sat down with 359 Americans across 29 states to ask a simple question: What do they actually want from U.S. foreign policy? Their answers were remarkably consistent and cut across party lines. CFR Senior Fellow Rebecca Lissner explains that Americans want strong global leadership from the United States, but on their terms.
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!["Two countries in the world retaliated against us: [the] People’s Republic of China and Canada," says U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Jamieson Greer, describing global reactions to the U.S. tariffs and trade negotiations.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2061889419242582478/media/HJ1Ne4yXYAAW1PG.jpg)
“The administration has issued licenses for 750,000 H200 chips, but those licenses are still stalled on the Chinese side. . . . It would triple China’s AI computing power capacity, if those were to go through,” says CFR expert Chris McGuire, discussing the stalled sale of Nvidia’s H200 chips to Chinese companies during a media briefing on the Trump-Xi summit.
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“The president has directed the United States armed forces to conduct a military campaign with a focus on degrading and destroying the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ability to project military power in the region and potentially beyond,” says Elbridge Colby, under secretary of war for policy at the U.S. Department of War. “And that is specifically focused, in particular, on the missile and one-way attack drone capabilities and production of the Islamic Republic and the navy, the naval forces.” 🔗 Watch the full conversation:
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![“We are watching a superpower developing super scientific capabilities, and our whole effort is how to slow [China] down, rather than how to become better than them,” says Albert Bourla, chairman and CEO of Pfizer, Inc. “The only way to be able not to lose the edge that we have—it is if we do changes inside our American ecosystem of biotech, of science, of academia, of pharmaceuticals, of capital markets, venture capital.” 🔗 Watch the full conversation:](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2039796405540147378/media/HE7QALQXQAAzv-w.jpg)
“We are watching a superpower developing super scientific capabilities, and our whole effort is how to slow [China] down, rather than how to become better than them,” says Albert Bourla, chairman and CEO of Pfizer, Inc. “The only way to be able not to lose the edge that we have—it is if we do changes inside our American ecosystem of biotech, of science, of academia, of pharmaceuticals, of capital markets, venture capital.” 🔗 Watch the full conversation:
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“We have to start calculating whether there needs to be a policy reset from a four-decades-long collective policy of the Western world,” says Reza Pahlavi, Iranian exiled crown prince and advocate of a secular democratic Iran. Watch the full conversation here:
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“America by itself cannot and will not be able to maintain global stability without having some partner in that,” argues Reza Pahlavi, Iranian exiled crown prince and advocate of a secular democratic Iran. Pahlavi criticizes the Iranian regime for “trying to buy time” to avoid meaningful reform. Watch the full conversation:
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"I think the G7 more or less has to be less open to China until China's more open to the world," says CFR expert Brad Setser on why Chinese President Xi Jinping has no incentive to change China's export-driven growth model and what the G7 could do about it. Watch the latest episode of The Spillover hosted by Sebastian Mallaby and Rebecca Patterson:
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In a survey, CFR asked members of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations what they considered to be the best and worst foreign policy decisions in U.S. history. They ranked the creation of NATO on April 4, 1949 as one of the best. See their full list:
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“We’re in a moment of superpower suicide,” says CFR democracy expert Timothy Snyder. “We are choosing to be far less powerful than we could be. We are choosing that, right? And that’s the element of choice in a suicide. And then there’s the substance of what we’re doing, which is that in domain after domain—long term, short term, ethical, strategic—we are cutting ourselves off. . . . We’re doing it in education. We’re doing it in research. We’re doing it in the way we’re fighting war. We’re doing it in economics.” 🔗 Watch the full conversation:
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“The Chinese are pretty impressed by U.S. military capability, not just in Iran, but also in Venezuela . . . . However, at the same time, even though tactically we’ve been quite impressive, they see us strategically as making a massive mistake,” argues Rush Doshi, Asia studies expert and CFR’s director of the China Strategy Initiative, in reference to the talks between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Watch or listen to the latest episode of The President’s Inbox:
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“China’s national intelligence law, its counterespionage law, require Chinese companies to cooperate with Chinese intelligence and not disclose that fact to others. That creates espionage risks,” says Rush Doshi, director of CFR’s China Strategy Initiative and assistant professor at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. “These robots are equipped with LiDAR systems, microphones, and cameras that make them mobile surveillance platforms.”
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“In 2024, Chinese factories installed roughly 300,000 new industrial robots. American factories installed 30,000. Today, there are now more than 2 million industrial robots working in Chinese factories. In the U.S., the number is one-fifth that,” says Rush Doshi, director of CFR’s China Strategy Initiative and assistant professor at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. “China is investing in the future, it’s pulling ahead in research publications and patent filings, and pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into the robotics sector.”
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“We have to be reminded of the fact that until 2016 or 2017, resolutions at the UN Security Council on Iran were adopted by consensus without a vote, all right? And I think this question allows us to be reminded that that consensus is gone. And I don’t see it coming back, perhaps for a long, long time. And it doesn’t apply only to Iran in this capacity of the Security Council to find a common denominator,” says Rafael M. Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency and nominee for the position of UN secretary-general. “But that doesn’t mean that you are not going to get to the functionalities that you need in certain cases. I think, from now on, what we are going to see is a completely transactional operation of the Security Council. Said in a less techy way, case by case.” 🔗 Watch the full conversation:
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“Anyone whose hand is not soiled with the blood of the Iranian people should have the possibility of seeing a place for themselves post–regime collapse,” says Reza Pahlavi, Iranian exiled crown prince and advocate of a secular democratic Iran. Watch the full conversation:
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